Word: clinically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...M.D.s in various protocols of alternative medicine, or, as Weil prefers to call the eclectic healing he practices, "integrative medicine." In addition to classroom training and research work, physicians admitted to the program will get extensive hands-on experience with patients, working alongside Weil at a new integrative-medicine clinic the university has established. Even before the program had begun, Weil was developing plans to market the curriculum to other medical schools looking to develop similar fellowships of their...
...million for charities that include several Christian Coalition groups, the American Family Association and Operation Rescue-National. In May 1994, Planned Parenthood was awarded $1.01 million in damages by a Texas jury that ordered Rescue America, Operation Rescue-National and their leaders to pay for protesting and harassing clinic doctors, staff and patients during the 1992 G.O.P. Convention in Houston. Now Planned Parenthood hopes to seize at least half that amount from Operation Rescue via LifeLine and other sources...
...Minutes piece featured an attorney pushing a novel murder defense: that the victim was killed not by his client but by the harvesting of her organs. This was followed by an interview with an ethicist concerned that protocols proposed at the Cleveland Clinic would allow organ-preserving drugs to be given to patients expected to suffer cardiac death after life support is withdrawn. The ethicist feared that these drugs could actually hasten death...
Boffo television. But there may be less controversy here than meets the CBS Eye. The murder case was 10 years old. The protocols, though never implemented by the Cleveland Clinic, are used elsewhere and are supported by Dr. Hans Sollinger, president of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. A 1996 study of 500 hospitals found that about a third of the institutions that responded used cardiac-dead donors, some presumably injected with organ-preserving drugs. Cardiac dead used to be the most dead you could be. It wasn't until the late 1960s that new laws added the standard...
Crider's doctor eventually had the prescription filled at a Vons pharmacy. Still, Crider was enraged. "I'm no activist," says the former health-clinic employee. "But this was outrageous. I've had difficult pregnancies, and I wasn't ready to get pregnant again. This was a legitimate, legal prescription. Imagine if a woman who was raped had this experience. Is a pharmacist supposed to preach religion...